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Princess Alice of Battenberg was born at Windsor Castle in 1885 in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was married at the age of 18 to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark,...

CNN —. Netflix ’s regal drama “ The Crown ” has shed light on the tragic, yet heroic, life of one of the lesser-known royals: Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.

That's what Princess Victoria, mother to Princess Alice of Battenberg (who later became Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark), famously said of her daughter when she adopted a gray nun's...

She moved into Buckingham Palace in 1966 and spent the last two years of life there, growing particularly close to Princess Anne, according to Lacey. Princess Alice died on December 5, 1969.

Born in Windsor, England, on February 25, 1885, Alice of Battenberg, princess of Greece, was one of Queen Victoria 's many grandchildren. Her father was Prince Louis Alexander Battenberg, and her mother was Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt. Alice was the eldest sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.